My oldest, an L. C. Smith shotgun, 1875

Next oldest, Marlin 336, 35Rem, 1972

Newest, Taurus G3c, 9mm, 2023

I have no idea of average age but would guesstimate about 35 years

 

I have an Eddystone M1917 from 1918. I believe I have a rimfire from earlier than that. Most are newer but I'd say the average age would be 1950s if we take away ARs.

 

My go-to hunting rifle is a Winchester M1917, also from 1918.

 

My oldest firearm is a 1914 manufactured, fully automatic, legally registered, German MG08 belt fed machinegun. She runs perfectly.

 

When I look at that machine gun I can't help but wonder how many allied troops it killed.

 

Love that LC Smith @Corndog

 

March 1941

I have a Winchester model 37, a Springfield Model 15, and others.

 

1943 and 1951 recivers

 

Currently my oldest is an 1856 P-53 type 2 Enfield riflemusket made right here in the USA by Robins&Lawrence of Windsor Vt. for the Brits during the Crimean War. This was the first machine made Enfield of any type.

Probably the oldest I've owned was a US M-1841, (Mississippi Rifle) made by Tryon in 1848 converted to shoot .58 Minie ammunition and accept a bayonet pre-Civil War.

 

Near as I can tell. My Steven's 311A is the oldest. 1949 is my best Google guess.

My Win model 70 Featherweight was special ordered by Grandad in 1952

 

S & W 625 from '89. My other oldest is a GP-100 from '91.

 

I've got an 1895 Chilean Mauser all numbers matching in 7x57mm made by Loewe, which from what I can tell means it was made in 1895, serial number is B35xx. I still shoot it occasionally with very mild handloads.

 

My oldest is 1947 click clack.
My newest is a 2025 super wrangler.
My oldest part is a 1926 higgens .22lr bolt.
My newest part is a 2025 geissele trigger group.

 

If I take off the guns made in the last 5 years, my average age climbs to 46 (1979). Looks like I've bought too much new chit....

 

Belgian Sable Baby Hammerless 22 Short, precise date unknown, but was manufactured approximately from 1910 to 1930. Still shootable.

Late nineteenth century Colt 6-shot rimfire, manufactured in its Hartford, Connecticut plant. No longer shootable.

 

An H.S.Brown 10 gauge SxS. From what I can find probably made between 1890 and 1920. It was my grandfather's. I saw him shoot a skunk with it around 1968 or so. The flame out the end had to be 20 feet long. Made quite an impression on 5 year old me.

 

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Colt 1908 hammerless (Pocket 25) made in 1923

Top is a 1945 M98 my father-in law brought home from WW II. Made in Germany toward end of the war has tool marks not polished.
Middle 1937 M98 belonged to a friend that had sporterized and hunted with it, He dropped it out of tree stand and bent the barrel. I bought it from him, rebarreled it for 308, replaced the bolt handle and drilled and tapped it for a scope. I was made in Poland and is well polished.
Bottom walnut stock I never found time to fit.

I also have guns from the 50s to present.

 

Around 1977 I bought a used Winchester 101 Trap gun from a guy who had not owned it long. Still have it, my oldest.
1979, found a new Winchester 490 semi-auto .22lr at a gun store and grabbed it. I think they were already discontinued.
In 1985 my wife gave me a Ruger 77/22 for xmas that year.
Those are the oldest I still own.

 

Oldest gun I own is a 1977 SS Blackhawk. It's 3 years older than me.

 

A guns age is actually not significant to me. Good designs, are good designs. Now, average available ammuntion and it's average power level does become a factor sometimes, in both directions. But for me, I shoot. I do not collect past what I shoot. And I only "collect" what I think I can shoot the best.

 

OLDEST: Winchester Model 1894 .30 WCF Mfg. in 1908.
All other firearms mfg. since Mid 1960.
NEWEST: Browning HP 9 mm Mfg. 2014 NIB

 

My oldest is a 1934 Mossberg Model 44

 

"How old are your guns?"

How old?

So old, when these were made, you were just a fiver in your old man's pocket".

 

My oldest long gun is this Peabody-Martini in 45 Turk made in about 1876. My oldest handgun the little Sharps Patent Tipping and Lawden 4 shot Derringer. It dates to the late 1860s.

 

Here is my 2001 Edition 10-22 All-Weather model. It's little companion, the Super Wrangler, I bought earlier this year.

 

My 1840s family heirloom Golcher fowling piece brought “west” to Missouri from Indiana by my great grandfather in 1890.

 

I own no guns older than I am at this point.

 

... and I'm only 50.